If I remember rightly, Minix was Linus's "square 1" when he started Linux.
Brian Jones wrote: > Christopher Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oops, I thought he was referring to something else. > > > > Didn't Microsoft have a Unix-like OS with a name similar to Minix? > > Xenix. Radio Shack was using this for their POS systems as recently > as around 4 years ago. $Oops^2$ ;-} I was indeed refering to Xenix. Sorry if, I insulted anybody with that (I think minix is OK to stast theoretical study with OSes )
